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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:52:03 -0500
From: Gunter Kohl  (by way of cal woods)
Subject: pro 'The Spirit Of Man' by Chris DeBurgh




song: The Spirit Of Man
artist: Chris de Burgh
from the 1986 A&M Album Into the Light
Playing time 4:40

transcribed by Gunter Kohl (kohl@kph.uni-mainz.de)

If the transcription contains mistakes, if you think one chord should be
replaced by another one, please mail to me or send a corrected file to
OLGA

Intro: GGCD (4 times)

       G (320003@1)                           C (x32010@1)          G1) (320003@1)I'm chasing a shadow, I           can't see a thing,
2) There's a fighter inside who will never give  up,
         C (x32010@1)                       G1) (320003@1)It's dipping and diving like a bird on the wing,
2) We are what we are and it's     never enough,
               C (x32010@1)                       D (xx0232@1)               G (320003@1)   CG
1) And every time I get near it just     seems to slip away;
2) Write the words in the sand that this man will come again;


Ref1:
           bm                                      CYou (x32010@1)may    run from the sea, and the words disappear,
Oh you may fall to your knees,    But the power is here,
       Dto (xx0232@1)survive;
                G (320003@1)                  CIt's (x32010@1)shining again,
        D (xx0232@1)     G (320003@1)                  CIt's (x32010@1)shining again - the spirit of man,
It's shining again - the spirit of man;
        D (xx0232@1)     GIt's (320003@1)shining again

         G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)          G3) (320003@1)Ah remember the first day of   man on the moon,
4) Oh look back to the future and look down the years,
        C (x32010@1)                        G3) (320003@1)The whole world was watching, a whole world in tune,
4) It wasn't all battles and       bad news and tears,
           C (x32010@1)                        D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)   CG
3) It was hard to believe he was the same as me and you;
4) We have brought to this place a desire to have a dream;

Ref2:
          bm                                     CWe (x32010@1)may    reach for the stars, and fall from the sky,
Oh in the darkest hour the              spirit of man
         Dcomes (xx0232@1)to life;
     D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)                 CIt's (x32010@1)shining again - the spirit of man,
It's shining again - the spirit of man,
It's shining again - the spirit of man;
         G (320003@1)                C (x32010@1)                 DAnd (xx0232@1)we work - aha - for the good things that we can have,
Yea we work - aha - for the family       and    home,
Yea we work - aha - for the D-Mark       and the dollar,
Yea we work - aha - for the woman  on    the    phone,
Yea we work - aha - for that moment       of   elation,
Yea we work - aha - for a chance  to  get       away,
And we work - aha - just to let imagination,
       Eb (x43121@3)               DCome (xx0232@1)inside and take me away;

1) stnaza instr.
Ref2:
           bm                                     CWe (x32010@1)may     reach for the stars, and fall from the sky,
Ooh in the darkest hour the             spirit of man
          Dcomes (xx0232@1)to life;
      D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)               CIt's (x32010@1)shining again - the spirit of man,
It's shining again - the spirit of man,
It's shining again - the spirit of man.

(fade out)

the chord C in the refrain could be played:

^0---3----- (it should give an uprising feeling)
|1-3-3-----
|0---------
|2---------
|3---------
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